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Despite these blind spots , the survey showed that companies are taking security seriously . Over half of the companies reported having double-digit Security Operations Centre ( SOC ) headcounts , showing a significant investment in keeping their organizations secure .
Matt Pieklik , Senior Consulting Analyst at Vectra , said : “ Securing the cloud with confidence is nearly impossible due to its ever-changing nature . To address this , companies need to limit the number of attack vectors malicious actors are able to take . This
Companies need to provide security holistically across regions and automate as many activities as possible to enhance their effectiveness .
means creating formal sign-off processes , creating DevSecOps workflows and limiting the number of people that have access to their entire infrastructure as much as possible . Ultimately , companies need to provide security holistically across regions and automate as many activities as possible to enhance their effectiveness .”
Vectra has answered this industry need through the creation of Detect for AWS which reduces risk of cloud services being exploited , detects threats against AWS services and automatically responds to attacks against applications running in AWS . p
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